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4 hrs ago | 680News

Unless governor stops it, D.C. sniper mastermind John Allen Muhammad set for execution Tuesday

Unless Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine steps in, sniper mastermind John Allen Muhammad will be executed Tuesday for the attacks that terrorized the nation's capital region for three weeks in October 2002.

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Related Topix: Virginia, Virginia Government, US Governors, Tim Kaine, Greensville Correctional Center, State Prisons, Criminal Defense Law, Law

Mon Nov 09, 2009

KIDK TV

Fort Hood shooting suspect awake, talking

The man accused of killing 13 people and wounding 29 at Fort Hood is able to talk, a hospital spokesman said Monday, but it's unknown when investigators might take advantage of his improving health to press forward with their probe into the shooting spree.

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Related Topix: US Military, US Army, Fort Hood, Fort Hood, TX, Brooke Army Medical Center

WISH-TV Indianapolis

Case against bodies suspect expands

Authorities are investigating whether a man whose home and yard harbored the remains of at least 11 people is connected to any killings in places he lived while in the military, including Japan, California and the Carolinas.

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Related Topix: US Military, US Marine Corps, US News, Camp Pendleton, CA

WABC

Iran is accusing three detained Americans of espionage.

A senior Iranian prosecutor accused three Americans detained on the border with Iraq of espionage on Monday, the first signal that Tehran intends to put them on trial.

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Related Topix: Iran, World News, Middle East, Hillary Clinton, US Politics, US News, California, UC Berkeley

WPVI-TV Philadelphia

Chavez to troops: Prepare for war

President Hugo Chavez on Sunday ordered Venezuela's military to prepare for a possible armed conflict with Colombia, saying his country's soldiers should be ready if the United States attempts to provoke a war between the South American neighbors.

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Related Topix: South America, World News, Colombia, Hugo Chavez,

Newsday.com

Late-season hurricane takes aim at US Gulf Coast

Ida, the first Atlantic hurricane to target the United States this year, plodded Sunday toward the Gulf Coast with 105 mph winds, bringing the threat of flooding and storm surges.

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Related Topix: Hurricane, Natural Disasters, US Politics, US News, Bobby Jindal, Republican, US House of Representatives, US Governors, FEMA, Management

Sun Nov 08, 2009

Boston.com

Expanding drug treatment: Is US ready to step up?

Based on the rhetoric, America's war on drugs seems poised to shift into a more enlightened phase where treatment of addicts gains favor over imprisonment of low-level offenders.

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www.dose.ca | lois sprague

Army chief fears backlash for Muslim U.S. soldiers

The U.S. Army's top general expressed concern on Sunday that last week's mass shooting at Fort Hood in Texas, blamed on a Muslim Army officer, could fuel a backlash in the military against Muslim troops.

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Related Topix: US Army, US Military, Fort Hood, Fort Hood, TX

Boston.com

Ill. prosecutors seek journalism students' grades

This Oct. 26, 2009, photo Northwestern University professor David Protess, founder of the Medill Innocence Project, talks with journalism students at a reporting strategy session in Evanston, Ill.

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Related Topix: Journalism, Northwestern University, Chicago Metro, Death Penalty

WHNS

US Attorney General: Gitmo Reviews Under Way

U.S. officials are reviewing which Guantanamo Bay detainees could face trial in American courts and the first indications could come next week, the U.S. attorney general said Sunday.

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Related Topix: US Military Prisons, Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, Camp Delta, US News, Guantanamo Bay

Newindpress

No base deal during Obama visit: Japan

U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs Kurt Campbell meets Japan's Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada in Tokyo.

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WHDH

Medvedev: Arms control deal with US can be reached

Russia and the United States have a good chance of reaching a new nuclear arms reduction deal before year's end, but other nuclear powers must join disarmament efforts, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said in remarks released Saturday.

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Related Topix: Vladimir Putin, US Politics, US News, 2008 Presidential Election, Barack Obama

Sat Nov 07, 2009

WSVN-TV Miami Beach

Guyana: US 'mastermind' behind arson attacks

Recent arson attacks and shootings in this violence-wracked South American nation are the work of a mastermind living in the United States, Guyanese President Bharrat Jagdeo alleged.

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Related Topix: South America, World News, Guyana, Bharrat Jagdeo

Free Republic

PELOSI: Buy a $15,000 Policy or Go to Jail

Today, Ranking Member of the House Ways and Means Committee Dave Camp released a letter from the non-partisan Joint Committee on Taxation confirming that the failure to comply with the individual mandate to buy health insurance contained in the Pelosi health care bill could land people in jail.

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Related Topix: US Politics, Dave Camp, Republican, US House of Representatives, Criminal Defense Law, Law

Centre Daily Times

High court to look at life in prison for juveniles

Joe Sullivan was sent away for life for raping an elderly woman and judged incorrigible though he was only 13 at the time of the attack.

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Related Topix: Jacksonville Metro, US News, Death Penalty, Criminal Defense Law, Law

KSTU - Fox 13

In year since Ecuadorean's death, other immigrants'...

In this file photo of Jan. 28, 2009, Nicholas Hausch appears in court in Riverhead, N.Y. where he and six other Long Island teenagers are accused in the stabbing death of Ecuadorean immigrant Marcelo Lucero.

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Related Topix: Riverhead, NY, Family, Teenagers, Patchogue, NY, Immigration Reform

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Egypt stops opposition leader from traveling to US

Egyptian authorities have prevented a leading political dissident from traveling to the U.S., saying Friday that the conditions of his early release from prison do not permit him to travel abroad.

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Fri Nov 06, 2009

WKJK-AM Louisville

It Was the Food

T hey were angry about the food. A guard at a Kentucky prison says that was the main reason inmates rioted and set fire to buildings in August.

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Related Topix: Kentucky, Kentucky Government, Northpoint Training Center, State Prisons

KAIT-TV Jonesboro

Palestinian shock: President says he wants to quit

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas pushed Mideast peace prospects into unknown territory Thursday, announcing he doesn't want another term and opening the way to a succession battle that could play into the hands of his rival, the militant Hamas.

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Related Topix: Israel, World News, Middle East, Palestinian Territories, Hillary Clinton, US Politics, US News, 2008 Presidential Election

Post and Courier

Graham, DeMint agree on trials

South Carolina's Republican U.S. senators differ on whether Guantanamo Bay detainees should be sent to the Navy brig in Hanahan, but said they will work together to keep the accused terrorists out of federal courts.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, US Senate, Republican, Lindsey Graham, Jim DeMint, US Military Prisons, Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, Hanahan, SC

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